The Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson, 1875-1910 (eBook)

Niels Aage Thorsen (Autor)

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2014
288 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5931-3 (ISBN)

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Niels Thorsen argues that Woodrow Wilson was one of America's most important political scientists. Focusing on the period from Wilson's early years until he was elected Governor of New Jersey, this work shows why he deserves a prominent place in the history of American political thought, even apart from his later attainments in the political arena. His book Congressional Government, his seminal article on "The Study of Public Administration," and his textbook on The State were important contributions during the formative years of academic political science in America. In contrast to those who propose psychological explanations of Wilson's early interest in political problems, Thorsen contends that the crisis of the election of 1876 against the backdrop of the Civil War was decisive in turning Wilson's attention to political ideas.Implying the abandonment of a more traditional form of political thought based on the social contract and on constitutionalism, egalitarianism, and common sense, Wilson linked his conclusions about the nature of politics to the rise of the social and economic sciences. Distinctive in his academic work were ideas about social and economic diversification as the condition for the growth of national power, and about political leadership asserted at home and abroad as a way to overcome traditional American fears about centralized power.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Supplementary Volumes
• Reihe/Serie: Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Supplementary Volumes
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: A History of Political Theory • A History of the American People • Albert Bushnell Hart • American capitalism • American Economic Association • American imperialism • americanization • american nationalism • American Patriotism • American Philosophy • american political thought • American Revolution • American System (economic plan) • Arthur F. Bentley • Articles of Confederation • Charles A. Beard • classical republicanism • Compromise of 1877 • Conservatism in the United States • Constitution • Constitutionalism • Constitutional theory • Continental Philosophy • Democracy • democracy in America • Democratic-Republican Party • Economics • Elite Theory • Fred W. Riggs • George Tucker (politician) • German Historical School • German Nationalism • Goldman • Grand Army of the Republic • Grover Cleveland • Hans Baron • Herbert Spencer • Historicism • Historiography • imperialism • Imperial Presidency • jacksonian democracy • johns hopkins • Lecture • Liberalism • Liberalism in the United States • Majoritarianism • Manchester Liberalism • monarchism • Moral Economy • Moral Suasion • National Government (United Kingdom) • Nationalization • National policy • national power • Origins of the American Civil War • Parliament of England • Patriarchy • Patriotism • Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche • political constitution • Political Economy • Political Man • Political Philosophy • Political Science • Politician • Politics • popular sovereignty • Populism • President of Princeton University • progressivism • Progressivism in the United States • protectionism • public administration • Puritans • reflections on the revolution in france • Religion • Republicanism • Richard T. Ely • Rights of Man • right-wing politics • Robert C. Tucker • Rutherford B. Hayes • Samuel J. Tilden • Social Darwinism • social liberalism • Sovereignty • The Administrative State • The American Political Tradition • The Great Transformation (book) • The Promise of American Life • The Significance of the Frontier in American History • The Study of Administration • Thorstein Veblen • Two Treatises of Government • Utilitarianism • victorian america • william jennings bryan • Woodrow Wilson • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5931-X / 140085931X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5931-3 / 9781400859313